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BE Seminar Series Academic Year 2007-2008

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All seminars will be presented in Rm. 32-141, unless otherwise noted, at 4:05PM.

Fall 2007
Date
Speaker
Institution
Topic
Host(s)

September 13

Christina Smolke

Caltech

A framework for programming integrated RNA devices

Drew Endy

September 20

Stephen Lippard

MIT

Meet the Lab—The Lippard Group

K. Dane Wittrup

September 27

Ron Weiss Princeton University Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells Doug Lauffenburger

October 25

Bernhardt Trout

MIT

Meet the Lab—The Trout Group

K.Dane Wittrup

November 1

Steven Henikoff

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Histone variant dynamics and epigenetics

Ernest Fraenkel

November 8

Todd Thorsen

MIT

Microfluidics for the cell biologist: tools for cell culture and analysis

Roger Kamm

November 15

Brian Duling

University of Virginia

The endothelial cell surface glycocalyx - where does the plasma stop and the matrix begin, and why?

C. Forbes Dewey

December 6

Gavin MacBeath

Harvard University

Insight into Protein Function through Genome-wide Investigations

Forest White

Spring 2008

February 14

Kam W. Leong

Duke University

Response of stem cells to nanostructures

Darrell Irvine

February 21

Mark Bathe

CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette

Cytoskeletal actin bundles: in search of nature's design principles

Douglas Lauffenburger

March 13

Ram Sasisekharan

MIT

Meet the Lab—The Sasisekharan Group

K.Dane Wittrup

March 18
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Michael Smith

ETH Zurich

The changing face of the extracellular matrix under force: role of fibronectin in mechanotransduction

Douglas Lauffenburger

March 20 Jan Lammerding Harvard Medical School The role of nuclear mechanics and nuclear-cytoskeletal coupling in human diseases Douglas Lauffenburger

April 3
Harris Lecture

Samuel H. Wilson

NIEHS

Molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis during base excision repair

Leona Samson and Pete Dedon

April 10 Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Stanford University Molecular imag(in)ing in living subjects Alan Jasanoff

April 17

Paul Selvin

University of Illinois

Molecular motors one step at a time: in vitro & in vivo

Matthew Lang

April 24

Manuel Llinas

Princeton University

Gene Regulation and Metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum

Jacquin Niles

May 1
Wogan Lecture

Cheryl Walker

University of Texas –MD Anderson Cancer Center

Cross-talk between ATM and TSC2 to regulate mTOR signaling in response to damage

Steven Tannenbaum

All seminars will be presented in Rm. 32-141, unless otherwise noted, at 4:05PM.

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